Re: [BUG] A panic caused by null pointer dereference aftering updating to

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:12:29 -0700

> Hmm, it seems commit 31c70d5956fc l2tp: keep original skb ownership
> is the problem.
> 
> ip_queue_xmit() assumes the socket attached to skb is an inet socket.

This is similar to the "send over AF_PACKET" issue we were discussing
the other week.

It seems we need a real resolution to this issue.

To recap:

1) We want to charge memory to the top-level socket.

2) However during encapsulations etc. we can end up in IP stack
   which expects only IP sockets to be attached to skb->sk

I suspect that in the short term we may have to bit the bullet and
compromise #2, and do flow control via the tunnel's socket.
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